 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1984 - Страниц: 1440
...nothing in this volume of much value to the public, or very creditable to myself. Events not to be an eye to the paltry compensations, or the more paltry commendations, of mankind. EAP POEMS O, Tempora!... | |
 | William Carlos Williams - 1992 - Страниц: 342
...to have always been prevented [by the latter] from doing any really concentrated and thoughtful work 'in what, under happier circumstances, would have been the field of my choice.' [And] also I think [that with rare exceptions (such as Emily Dickinson and Marianne Moore) even] a... | |
 | Arthur Hobson Quinn - 1997 - Страниц: 872
...nothing in this volume of much value to the public, or very creditable to myself. Events not to be controlled have prevented me from making, at any time,...circumstances, would have been the field of my choice. 79 Original Autograph Ms., Duyckinck Collection, New York Public Library. 80 Wiley and Putnam's Announcement.... | |
 | Ilan Stavans - 1999 - Страниц: 348
...nothing in this volume of much value to the public, or very creditable to myself. Events not to be controlled have prevented me from making, at any time,...have been the field of my choice. With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion." Does this last statement coincide with his explicit poetics? Taking... | |
 | Sacvan Bercovitch, Cyrus R. K. Patell - 1994 - Страниц: 580
...labor. As he wrote of poetry in his Preface to The Raven and Other Poems of 1845: "Events not to be controlled have prevented me from making, at any time,...circumstances, would have been the field of my choice." In 1836, he married his cousin Virginia, then aged thirteen, who died in 1847 at the age of twenty-four... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 2000 - Страниц: 678
...this volume V & of mueh value to the publie, or very ereditable to myself. Events not to be eontrolled have prevented me from making, at any time, any serious effort in what, under happier eireumstanees, would have been the field of my ehoiee. With me poetry has been not a purpose, but a... | |
 | Richard Alan Krieger - 2007 - Страниц: 344
...prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean." — Socrates "With me poetry has been not a purpose, but a passion; and the passions should be held in reverence." — "I would define, in brief, the Poetry of words as the Rhythmical Creation of Beauty. Its sole arbiter... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 2009 - Страниц: 580
...not at all characteristic of Poe, but the Preface concludes more typically with the observation that "with me poetry has been not a purpose, but a passion;...they must not — they cannot at will be excited with an eye to the paltry compensations, or the more paltry commendations, of mankind." Thus his prefatory... | |
 | 1908 - Страниц: 658
...the public, or very creditable to myself. Events not to be controlled have prevented me from makingat any time any serious effort in what, under happier...would have been the field of my choice." "With me," he added, "poetry has been not a purpose, but a passion ; and the passions should be held in reverence... | |
 | Jean Elizabeth Ward - 2008 - Страниц: 151
...nothing in this volume of much value to the public, or very creditable to myself. Events not to be controlled have prevented me from making, at any time,...what, under happier circumstances, would have been not a purpose, but a passion; and the passions should be held in reverence; they must not - they cannot... | |
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Events not to be controlled have prevented me from making, at any time, any serious effort in what, under happier circumstances, would have been the field of my choice. With me poetry has been not a purpose, but a passion ; and the passions should be... 
